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Could something be done about the way the list of MIDI instrument names
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Petr Pařízek |
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Could something be done about the way the list of MIDI instrument names is presented? |
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Fri, 31 Dec 2021 14:14:51 +0100 |
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Hi all,
this list of MIDI instrument names would deserve some reformatting or
even rewriting.
I'm saying this as someone who has never read this before.
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/midi-instruments
The following things are all true at the same time, which makes the list
hard to navigate with screen-reading software (i.e. when I can't see the
screen):
- the items are arranged vertically rather than horizontally,
- the table is stored as continuous text rather than a proper HTML table,
- there's no information about which instrument name corresponds to
which program number.
- Now suppose I want to find out what instrument name is used for the
MIDI program number 82 in the listings that go from 1 to 128 (or 81 in
those that go from 0 to 127).
- Or suppose I'd like to know the program number corresponding to te
MIDI instrument called "flute".
- If the items were either arranged horizontally or if they were stored
in a proper table (or both), then the program number would be easy to
figure out because:
1) if the items were stored in a proper table, I could use keystrokes
for moving up and down rather than left or right, so that I could
calculate the program number by first finding out how long one column is
and then calculating how many times I should multiply this number to get
as close as possible to the desired program number.
2) if they were arranged horizontally, I could still do it even without
proper tables, assuming that each line always contains the same number
of items, so that I could count how many lines I have to go up or down
to find the particular program number.
- Obviously, the absolutely best case would be if the items were
arranged horizontally, at the same time they would be presented as a
proper table, and at the same time the program numbers would be included
as well.
Thoughts?
Thanks.
Petr
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